I’ll be honest with you folks, I always thought that by being an Orthodox Jew I was part of a cult, but Cross-Currents just published an article that has cleared my conscience and it has allowed me to breathe more…
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Dear R’ Heshy: Is it muttar to lie to get into government programs?
Dear R’ Heshy, Seeing as how you have such a learned, balanced and thoughtful outlook on life, and seeing as how your readership has the same; I am coming back to you with another shaila which has bothered me since…
Orthodox Jews keeping the porn magazine business alive
Los Angeles – Everyone knows that the Porn Industry is run by the Jews, but how many folks know that the Orthodox Jews are responsible for keeping the pornographic magazine industry alive. When internet porn came (no pun intended) onto…
13 Annoying Things About That Stupid Jew In the City Article
by Chaya Miriam Fried I happen to like Allison, really, but that article left me seriously irritated. I don’t get the sudden outflow of Public Relations pieces among the orthodox. Since when do we care what non-Jews think of us?…
The most screwed up things we do as Orthodox Jews
I used to love it in high school when the Rabbis would go on tirades against the all the other religions, they would talk a lot of smack about how Judaism made the most sense. Admittedly Judaism makes the most…
Frum News of the weird
Every once in a while I check out those strange news websites, you know, the ones ab out aliens, grilled cheese sandwiches that look like Jesus and criminals who hold up banks with their own deposit slips, but rarely do…
Fun things that piss off frum people
Thinking of the lists that Heshy and other contributors are making, I thought of another one — things that piss of frum people, but the items themselves might not really be all that bad. And these are fun to orchestrate…
61 really frum things
When I asked for ideas on Facebook (click the link to add me as a friend) for the following list people got it all wrong, they suggested long sentence type of things and I was really looking for one word…
The most abused expressions by frummies: “By”, “Baruch HaShem” and “Be Well”
Y0u Jew Sure Do Talk Phunni! by Alan Busch I guess the current politically correct usage would call this a “rant”, but there are a few things some of us say in the observant community with such frequency that you…